Klarinet Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2006/12

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Mozart Sinfonia Concertante
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:34:28 -0500

There is solid documentation in terms of letters to his father
from Paris that describes the circumstances and the
instrumentation of the Sinfonie Concertante. (The French term is
used for the title and not 'Sinfonia Concertante' because the for
was a French invention. They went crazy about compositions for
multiple solo instruments and orchestra.)

There is not the slightes doubt that the original work was for
flute, oboe, horn, and bassoon. Even the player's names are
given in Mozart's correspondence. So how did it wind up with a
clarinet instead of a flute?

Read my piece that you posted, read Bob Levin's book, read and of
the publications of my article. Beside the Clarinet magazine
somewhere around 1985, you can find it in: Fall 1984, Volume 12,
No. 1, pp. 24-27, "Whatever happened to the Sinfonie
Concertante?"; reprinted in The Flutist Quarterly, Volume X,
Number 4, Summer 1985, pp. 57-62; reprinted in The Horn Call,
Volume XIV, Number 2, April 1986, pp. 68-74; reprinted in The
Journal of the International Double Reed Society, Number 13,
1985, pp. 42-7 ; reprinted in MadAminA!, Fall 1985, Volume 6,
Number 2, pp. 17-20.

CAVEAT!!! I NEVER SAID THAT THE WORK AS WE KNOW IT, EITHER IN THE
FLUTE FORM OR THE CLARINET FORM IS NOT MOZART'S WORK. The theory
espoused by both Bob and myself states that the solo parts
represent a changed version of the original Mozart material, done
by somebody, while the orchestral accompaniment is not Mozart's.

Start reading. You have a lot to learn.

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Yungkurth [mailto:chalumeau@-----.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:18 AM
To: Klarinet List
Subject: RE: [kl] Mozart Sinfonia Concertante

Dan Leeson, in his reply to Jim Lytthans about the Mozart
Sinfonia
Concertante said:

>What is new is that Bob Levin did a reconstruction of the work
>replacing the clarinet with the flute of the original. Now,
>don't think that the flute simply plays the clarinet part.
It's
>not that at all. To get back to the original instrumentation,
he
>took the four solo parts (clarinet, oboe, horn, bassoon) and
>reorganized the music to achieve the work's original
>instrumentation (flute, oboe, horn, bassoon.).

I will try to get Levin's book about this work, which Dan
mentioned, but
wondered about Dan's indication of the original instrumentation
as for
flute, oboe, horn and bassoon. I seem to recall that this
instrumentation was mentioned by Mozart in a letter to his
father, but
that no manuscript survives.

If that is correct, and the present Levin or other clarinet
versions are
clearly not Mozart's work, how do we know anything whatsoever
about the
instruments that might have been called for by whoever did
compose it?
I assume there is no manuscript known by someone other than
Mozart
either.

Don Yungkurth

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